Philosophy and Anthropology

Border Crossing and Transformations
Herausgeber: Clammer, John; Giri, Ananta Kumar

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Produktbeschreibung

'Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations' is an innovative and original collection of essays exploring the relationships between philosophy and anthropology - historically and presently ? and the theoretical and practical issues concerning their dialogue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780857285126
• ISBN-10: 0857285122
• Artikelnr.: 38077519

Autorenporträt

Ananta Kumar Giri has taught in various universities in India, the USA, Denmark and Germany, and has written numerous books on social movements, cultural change, criticism, culture and society, and ethics in management and development. Giri is currently an associate professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. John Clammer is currently a professor of sociology in the Institute of Sustainability and Peace at the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan. His work ranges from economics, anthropology and ethnicity to identity and development, and focuses on the relationships between Western social theory, the realities of the Asian societies and the links between culture and development.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Philosophy and Anthropology in
Dialogues and Conversations – John Clammer and Ananta Kumar Giri; PART I:
NURTURING THE FIELD: TOWARDS MUTUAL FECUNDATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF
PHILOSOPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY; Chapter 1 The Project of Philosophical
Anthropology – John Clammer; Chapter 2: The Self-Preservation of Man:
Remarks on the Relation between Modernity and Philosophical Anthropology –
Kasper Lysemose; Chapter 3: Whither Modernity? Hybridization,
Postoccidentalism, Postdevelopment and Transmodernity – Ivan Marquez;
Chapter 4: Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy in Anthropology –
Vaclav Brezina; Chapter 5: The Engagement of Philosophy and Anthropology in
the Interpretive Turn and Beyond: Towards an Anthropology of the
Contemporary – Heike Kampf; Chapter 6: Mediation through Cognitive
Dynamics: Philosophical Anthropology and the Conflicts of Our Time – Piet
Strydom; Chapter 7: Philosophy as Anthropocentrism: Language, Life and
‘Aporia’ – Prasenjit Biswas; PART II: SOURCES OF PHILOSOPHICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY; Chapter 8: Kant and Anthropology – Ananta Kumar Giri; Chapter
9: Dilthey’s Theory of Knowledge and Its Potential for Anthropological
Theory – Daniel Šuber; Chapter 10: Malinowski and Philosophy – Peter
Skalnik; Chapter 11: Ground, Self, Sign: The Semiotic Theories of Charles
Sanders Peirce and Their Applications in Social Anthropology – Lars
Kjaerholm; Chapter 12: Ricoeur’s Challenge for a Twenty-First Century
Anthropology – Betsy Taylor; Chapter 13: Clifford Geertz: The Philosophical
Transformation of Anthropology – Gernot Saalmann; Chapter 14: Bakhtin’s
Heritage in Anthropology: Alterity and Dialogue – Marcin Brocki; Chapter
15: The Philosophy of Slavoj Žižek and Anthropology: The Current Situation
and Possible Futures – Lars Kjaerholm; Chapter 16: Border Crossings between
Anthropology and Buddhist Philosophy – Susantha Goonatilake; PART III:
PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AT WORK; Chapter 17: ‘Anthropology of
Philosophy’ in Africa: The Ethnography of Critical Discourse and
Intellectual Practice – Kai Kresse; Chapter 18: Albinos Do Not Die: Belief,
Philosophy and Anthropology – Joao de Pina-Cabral; Chapter 19:
Anthropology, Development and the Myth of Culture – Robert Feleppa; Chapter
20: Notions of Friendship in Philosophical and Anthropological Thought –
Heidrun Friese; Afterword The Return of Philosophical Anthropology – Fred
Dallmayr